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From: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net>
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cothrige wrote:
> * Tore Lund (toreld@netscape.net) wrote:
>> I wondered about the same thing some time ago.  I was told by one of the
>> gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with
>> 6.1-RELEASE.  So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way:
>>
>> pkg_add [no line break]
>> ftp://ftp.<mirror>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/www/firefox-1.5.0.7,1.tbz
>>
> 
> Doesn't this seem a tad clunky and unfinished? [snip]

Agree completely, but as far as I can tell, them's the terms...

Let's hope that someone else will step in here and elucidate the matter.
-- 
    Tore